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New York trio Sunflower Bean have shared the second slice of their first fully self-produced and recorded project, Shake. The EP, which will be released on September 27th, has already been praised for its grungy, return-to-roots sound, following the release of its title track. Today, the band doubles down on this exciting direction with new single “Teach Me To Be Bad”. A song, the band explain, about how “a chance meeting with a special person can change your life forever. It can be exhilarating and frightening to fall madly for someone you barely know.”

The music videos for “Teach Me To Be Bad” and “Shake” are part of a 14-minute performance based video to showcase each track via an interpretation of the natural elements: earth, wind, water, fire, and metal. Sunflower Bean have also announced an exclusive premiere of that short film at Roxy Cinema in NYC on September 25th. The event will include a premiere of the full video, Q&A with the band and director Isaac Roberts, as well as a screening of the cult 1975 Dario Argento film, Deep Red. Tickets are available now.

Today Hinds return with “The Bed, The Room, The Rain And You”, the final single before they release their new album VIVA HINDS in its entirety next month, and the only song on the album sung in both English and Spanish.

On the new single, Carlotta Cosials & Ana Perrote note, “It’s a love song that has nothing to do with being with the other person or even whether it is reciprocated. We’re talking about the most simple version of it. Love is like a magic shelter that you can take everywhere with you.” On the music video, they add, “we started this adventure of directing all the music videos of this album with a bag full of imagination and dreams. the friends, the bikes, the dancing, a business that never existed, the body guards of beck, and ice-creams, hollywood, and surrealism and tiny houses. very slowly we wanted to guide you and place your attention in what we really do: music. For ‘The bed, the room, the rain and you,’ we wanted to finish the story with where everything started: recording the album.”

Charly Bliss today release “Back There Now”, the jaunty final single from their anticipated new album FOREVER, out this Friday! The song arrives with a tongue-in-cheek video directed by the band’s Dan Shure.

“One of the craziest things about getting older is growing away from the things you did when you were young(er) and stupid(er). But then I’ll read something or hear a song that takes me right back to the dramatic insanity of my early twenties love life, and I’m forced to acknowledge the freaky glutton for pain and heartache who’s still somewhere inside of me no matter how deeply I’ve buried her,” Eva Hendricks says of the song.

Dan Shure on the “Back There Now” video: “What originally began as us trying to make a cool video with limited budget, became a sort of deeper meta video about that exact situation. We’re SERVING expensive-looking pop video, but then at the end the facade crumbles. People sometimes think that indie musicians are rich and famous when, in reality, the members of Charly Bliss all have other jobs to support ourselves. In the video you see us on these various modes of transportation and you’re not quite sure what the destination is… but we’re moving! This video was SO fun to direct as a member of the band because we got to both make fun of these tropes of expensive pop videos, while also kind of living that fantasy. It feels very Charly Bliss to me!”

New York trio Sunflower Bean — vocalist and bassist Julia Cumming (she/her), guitarist and vocalist Nick Kivlen (he/him), and drummer Olive Faber (she/her) — will release their new EP, SHAKE, on September 27th. The band’s first fully self-produced and recorded project, SHAKE features some of Sunflower Bean’s heaviest, most immediate, and loudest music to date. Influenced by the doom-laden, heavy metal sound of Black Sabbath the EP is an embrace of rock tropes and excess, and recalls the sonic of the band’s earliest work, Show Me Your Seven Secrets and Human Ceremony.

“SHAKE was inspired by our first years as a DIY band, the spirit that birthed us and gave us the chance to have this enduring journey together,” Sunflower Bean explain of the EP. “We wrote, recorded, engineered, and produced these songs so nothing was filtered through anyone else’s idea of us. We always felt like rock and roll was a feeling, not a sound. But sometimes there is no subverting it or explaining it. We’re now offering it exactly as it occurred to us.”

SHAKE is Sunflower Bean raw and unfiltered, in the band’s most natural state. To further that theme, the band will release a 14-minute performance based video to showcase each track via an interpretation of the natural elements: earth, wind, water, fire, and metal. To achieve this, Sunflower Bean worked with Isaac Roberts, a young, rising director from Toronto. The band shares the first chapter ‘earth’ today with the video for title track and lead single “Shake” – watch the video below.

Sunflower Bean will also celebrate SHAKE with four US club show underplays in NYC, LA, Chicago and Austin where they will showcase both the EP and further new music. All dates and tickets on their website.

Today, the Madrid-based indie duo Hinds — a.k.a Carlotta Cosials and Ana Perrote – share another absolutely massive single, “Superstar”, accompanied by another self-directed music video. Rolling Stone recently called it a “soon-to-be Hinds classic”, as the song simmers delicately before it explodes into an empowering, if rageful, rallying cry: “Good job / Now you’re a local superstar / That only hangs with superstars / Carrying the weight of all that fame! / Carrying humanity’s joy and pain.” It’s the latest taste of their utterly triumphant and highly anticipated new album VIVA HINDS, out on September 6th.

“‘Superstar’ talks about the disappointment and the pain you feel when someone you love deeply, disappears with no explanation” say Hinds. “You feel worthless, you start thinking you never really knew that person and you question your shared past, and if what you remember really happened. It’s hard to let people go but writing this song helped. People need closure, and this song is ours.”

Hinds are back in the UK this September, playing a sold-out London headline show at Lafayette on the 13th, before returning in early 2025 for a full UK and European tour, now including a new show at London’s historic Electric Ballroom on the 26th of February. All dates and tickets are on their website now.